The XML submitted by the OP is indeed strange, but I think it's just typos. list-item and listitem should be just one, and, like you suggested, I would call it item.

Once this is fixed, the original XML is perfectly reasonable. In any case I would certainly not call it "crazy". It is standard practice to have a list contain only items, not a mixture of items and lists as you suggest at the end of your post. That's how XHTML, Docbook, and just about any other DTD out there works.

If anything the XML you propose is harder to handle with most tools. It might be easier to process with XML::Smart, but that's a (minor) gripe I have with both XML::Smart and XML::Simple: they sometimes lead to XML that is designed with the tool in mind, instead of following standard practices and proper XML design.

In reply to Re: Re: Text to XML by mirod
in thread Text to XML by murugu

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